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What a great website. I'm probably not politically active enough, but I hadn't seen it before.

For civically-minded hackers, OpenCongress has a great API:

API Documentation: http://www.opencongress.org/api My Python bindings: https://github.com/cpharmston/python-opencongress Ruby bindings: https://github.com/hoverbird/opencongress-ruby

Just another example of how private business and hackers are more effective at creating open and accessible government data.

I work for PPF on OpenCongress and other projects. Just FYI, our Ruby bindings have been rolled into a gem called GovKit, which includes Ruby bindings for other big OpenGov services around the web.

https://github.com/opengovernment/govkit/

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